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One dimensional man
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The souls of white folk beyond formation and structure: bound to identity
Matthew W. Hughey,W. Carson Byrd +1 more
TL;DR: A theoretical synthesis of the strengths of both paradigms can be found in this article, where the authors argue that interactional accountabilities and expectations of racial identity performance have to play as both product and cause of the racialized social order.
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Alienation and everyday life: goffman meets marx at the shopping mall
TL;DR: For instance, the authors argue that the few have had the power to construct definitions of reality and ideologies of legitimacy that are reproduced in the everday life routines of the many, so that arbitrary power arrangements seem natural and typical.
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Marx, Globalization and Alienation: Received and Underappreciated Wisdoms
TL;DR: The World Congress of Sociology in 2006, the official rationale for re-examining ''alienation'' within a global context was that alienating factory work has now been eradicated, humanized and/or simply compensated for by high levels of consumption in post-industrialized societies, with alienation from work having been ''exported' to offices there and sweatshops in newly industrializing countries.
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The Role of Cultural Studies and Social Criticism in the Sociological Study of Sport
TL;DR: In this article, it has been argued that the developing field of cultural studies can provide some provocative frames of reference for understanding the multidimensional nature of sport in society, and that it can provide an effective critique of elitist definitions of culture, in addition to making available the conceptual tools necessary to link the production of cultural forms (such as sport), to broader social and political questions.
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IPODS AREN'T JUST FOR TUNES: Exploring podcasting as a socio-cultural technology facilitating student experiences of higher education in rural Australia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the impact one new communication technology, podcasting, has had on students' educational experiences at a rural Australian university and found that the majority of student comments reflect support for podcasting as a learning tool and as a means to personalize distance education which for some, and particularly rural students can be an isolating experience.
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Staged Authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.
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Work, Self and Society: After Industrialism
TL;DR: Casey as discussed by the authors explored the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self and found that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism.
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What is critical urban theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpret critical urban theory with reference to four mutually interconnected elements: its theoretical character; its reflexivity; its critique of instrumental reason; and its emphasis on the disjuncture between the actual and the possible.
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Self-doubters, strugglers, storytellers, surfers and others: Images of self-identities in organization studies
TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature, including self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers.